BY
ZONA GALE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
All rights reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1921,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and printed. Published September, 1921.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.

“A great life, an entire civilization lies just outside the pale of common thought.... Such life is different from any yet imagined.... I see as clearly as the noonday that this is not all. I see other and higher conditions than existence.... The very idea that there is another Idea is something gained.”

—Richard Jeffries.

CONTENTS

[PART I
(EARLY VERSE)]
PAGE
[The Secret Way][4]
[Terza Rima]:
I[Old Talk][8]
II[Magic][1]
III[Night is Here][13]
[Ballades of Three Senses:]
I[Ballade of Eyes That See][14]
II[Ballade of Listening][16]
III[Ballade of Old Perfumes][18]
[Hokku Thoughts][20]
[Sonnets and Variations:]
[When Did Spring Die?][22]
[One Dawn She Awoke Me][23]
[There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live][24]
[Last Night I Dreamed I Saw My Mother Young][25]
[Why Am I Silent?][26]
[I Wandered Where the Wonder of the Sky—][27]
[Here a Hill Field][28]
[Return][29]
[By My Side All Day Another Went][30]
[In J. P. P.’s Metre:]
I[31]
II[32]
III(To a Poet)[33]
[Exercise in Spenserians][35]
[PART II]
[I Know Where a Dove][51]
[Prolocutor][52]
[Wonder][53]
[A Meeting][54]
[Half Thought][55]
[Epitaphs][56]
[Alias][57]
[In Arvia’s Room][58]
[Half Thought][64]
[Umbra][65]
[Wraiths][66]
[Half Thought][67]
[Wind Song][68]
[Half Thought][70]
[Troth][71]
[Beloved, It Is Daybreak on the Hills][72]
[Credo][73]
[Who Is This That Is So Near?][74]
[Inmost One][75]
[Stone Cell][77]
[Light][78]
[Half Thought][81]
[Contours][82]
[PART III]
[News Notes of Portage, Wisconsin:]
I[Kilbourn Road][85]
II[Violin][91]
III[North Star][96]
[Prose Notes:]
[The Bureau][98]
[Minuet][99]
[The Dining Room][101]
[Paradise and Purgatory][103]
[At Least][105]
[Roses][106]
[Spring Evening][109]
[Second Sight][111]
[Does Something Wait?][113]
[Doors][114]
[Levitation][116]
[Enchantment][118]